"Her only real offense was forgetting that she was near a mike and was on camera"

She's pop royalty, and so is nearly always near a mike or on camera. We cannot assume she didn't intend for this to be heard. But let's say she 'forgot', or thought she was somehow out of range from the mike sitting directly in front of her.

The price of massive fame includes the loss of private moments when such remarks are heard by the chosen few.

The benefit is that she doesn't have to give a shit what lowly people like me think about her.

Madonna's entire career has been a series of examples of her reinventing herself. It's what she does. Why on Earth should she keep the accent she had as a child? What should she have replaced it with? An Althousian midlands?

I love that there's always at least one devil's advocate in the comments around here. Thanks, Michael E. Lopez, for pointing out that Madonna did, in fact, exert herself to be polite and isn't getting proper credit for that enormous effort, and, really, she's doing us all a favor, actually, just by existing, and we're all insufficiently grateful, and leave Madge ALLOOOONE.